Sony Ericsson K850
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- Kiran
- vGu
- 29 Apr 2008
bought this phone 2day,awesome phone...simply superb....
- L
- Lee
- uCj
- 29 Apr 2008
Superb facilities but heavily flawed implementations.
1. Comes with a curse..Blue ring of death!
2. Not user friendly D-Pad ring.
3. Harder clickity plasticky buttons and D-pad ring. Keypad seen depressed on middle right side when buttons are pressed.
4. Camera flash easily and accidently covered by fingers resulting in dark pictures in low light.
5. File manager hidden in sub menu
6. Video lipsync problems despite firmware upgrade.
7. No wifi for the price.
8. Not very usable for games.
9. Slow CPU resulting in lag.
10. Media Player look plain and laggy.
2 stars upon 5. SE buggered this model.
5.
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- eden
- ibj
- 29 Apr 2008
i tried to update my phone yesterday but it said update are not avaliable.what doest that mean ?
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- mdz
- upq
- 29 Apr 2008
SONY ERICSSON SO905ICS which model of Se is, this?!!!!! Its being sold on welectronics.com.Check it out and plz shed some light on it
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- iCS
- q{S
- 29 Apr 2008
Oh yeah. I just wanted to add, the phone I'm using right now has a 2.7 inch screen with WVGA resolution (480x864). ^_____^
No, I'm not bragging. =P
- i
- iCS
- q{S
- 29 Apr 2008
@lonestar
Haha, yeah I figured you were more on the SE side. I'm just making sure that people don't be fooled and buy a Samsung because of their high megapixel count, and instead go for the better k850i or N82, or the best, being the SE Japan lineup.
Bigger image in no way beats better image quality.
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- lonestar (W810)
- LBH
- 29 Apr 2008
@ iCS
thanks bro. Actually, i'm a fan of Sony Ericsson (not a fanboy, just a fan) and all these ppl here know me. but thanks for da info
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- Allan
- q{U
- 29 Apr 2008
@lonestar. The b600 is also a cdma phone and not a gsm phone!
- i
- iCS
- q{S
- 29 Apr 2008
@lonestar
Actually I've only heard of 10mp as the highest, with solid proof, bypassing any random rumours spread around the net. It's the most I have heard of anyway. However, personally, I don't care about the size of the image, as long as it's about the size of an average computer screen. What affects a picture the most is the quality. I have not used the Korean 10mp cameraphones before, but I can say pretty confidently that the quality will be less or equal of that in a 5MP phone.
A 10mp phone needs a relatively large sensor. If you have seen pictures of the Samsung 10mp phone, there is no way that a 10mp imaging module can fit into it along with a good sensor for such a large resolution. Also remember that it's a standard phone, and within such a refined space has to fit in hardware for the phone (e.g. bluetooth, antenna, and of course the actual phone) too.
The screen on the phone looks pretty small too, which makes me believe that pictures won't only not look good on a big screen, but on the phone display as well.
And, as a side note.. I honestly think that the Samsung 10mp phone is rather ugly, first of all looking more like a camera than a phone, and secondly how the lens actually comes out of the phone. Sure, it makes it more like a real camera, but personally, I think a phone's design should stay in the phone section, and not like a camera.
Sony Ericsson Japan are more focused on reaching a set point, then refining the quality of the handset until just short of perfection. Sadly, these are made for optimal use in Japan, and to the rest of the world they are not as useful or feature packed.
Samsung seems to me like they are trying to jump ahead of the pack, yet giving compromises and lack perfection in a few, important areas. Oh and this only goes for their flagship models; I will have to agree that most of their other models are decent or above average.
I think that the megapixel race should stop, and manufacturers should focus on image quality instead (and of course, loading a phone with a CCD sensor).
By the way, I used to use a Nokia N82 due to it's imaging qualities, but after stumbling across the SO905iCS, I fell in love with SE. Or maybe only SE Japan. ^__^
If I said something wrong about the Samsung, don't flame, I admit to be using logical guesses, as the same factors apply to other phones.
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- lonestar
- LBH
- 28 Apr 2008
@ Nick
so it's like twice as gud as K850 & N82...right?
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- nick
- nxw
- 28 Apr 2008
hmm i know the b600 in south korea had a 10mp camera
- l
- lonestar
- LBH
- 28 Apr 2008
@ iCS & All
what is the maximum resolution on a camera phone that you've seen? I've heard that some of the Korean models have reached 12MP. Is that true?
Whatup guys?
- i
- iCS
- RwG
- 28 Apr 2008
@Manikandan
Not really. You should look at the SE Japan site.
As for Cybershot phones, SO905iCS by DoCoMo and W61S by au wipes the floor completely compared with any phone outside the Japanese market.
K850i is good, but not good enough, yet in due time, it will be much sexier, given phones like the S700 adapt from the SE Japanese style and features... which then it will definitely be a killer.
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- nick
- nxw
- 28 Apr 2008
shame the video resolution is crap.
*cough cameraphone cough*
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- Anonymous
- M@T
- 28 Apr 2008
@manikandan
100%agree
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- Manikandan
- vwu
- 28 Apr 2008
K850 is said to be the greatest portfolio for Sony ericsson and cybershot family the reason is.
1)5 Megapixel cybershot monster with splendid picture quality.
2)A great multi-media device with walkman 3.0 skin and mega bass functionality.
3)Excellent battery backup for a such high end phone
4)Camera features such as Bestpic(9 pics in one shot keep the one you like) and photofix for underexposed images.
5)Fantastic Accelerometer auto-rotate.
6)Dual Memeory card support.
7)Powerful Xenon flash for night pics.
8)Tri-band HSDPA (3.6 Mb), EDGE
9)PictBridge - print straight from your phone
10)Touchkeys works like a charm and dedicated camera On/Off automatic buttons similar to that of digital cameras.
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- alex
- wHS
- 28 Apr 2008
helo...this phone got W LAn?it support o no?
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- Anonymous
- 04{
- 28 Apr 2008
Design and features
The phone introduces a new button in the Cyber-shot line: on the right side a switch allows to choose between photo, video and playback mode. The phone will be available in the colours "Luminous Green", "Velvet Blue" and "Quicksilver Black".
Key features include:
* 3G video calling
* Cyber-shot Camera with xenon flash and additional 3 LED flash for video recording
* Bluetooth 2.0 (100m)
* Web Access (NetFront browser included)
* Exchange ActiveSync
* 3.5G high speed internet (Support up to 3.6Mbit/s (download speed), 384kbit/s (upload speed))
* Multiple audio playback (AAC, WAV, MP3, WMA)
* Built in Media Center (Sony PSP/PS3 XrossMediaBar menu)
* Video player with progressive fast forward and slow motion
[edit] Camera
5 megapixel camera, 16x digital zoom, natural color rendering, and built in xenon flash plus three additional LED flashes for video recording an AF illuminator. In camera mode the keypad is differently lit so the user can easily find the camera shortcut buttons (view mode, thumbnail view, selftimer, flash).
In common with the K810, a program called Photo Fix and Face Warp is bundled with the K850. Users can easily increase the brightness and the contrast of the photo.
Video recording is QVGA (320×240) @ 30 frames per second. (K800 QCIF (176x144) @ 15 fps.) Supports Image and Video Stabilizer so videos and photos taken would be less likely to appear blurred and shaky.
[edit] Specifications
Screen
* 2.2” QVGA (240x320 pixels), 262,144 (18-bit) colour TFT LCD
Available colours
* Luminous Green
* Velvet Blue
* Quicksilver Black
Sizes
* 102 x 48 x 17 mm (4 x 1.9 x 0.7 in)
Weight
* 118 g / 4.2 oz
Memory
* Memory Stick Micro (M2) 512 MB in box (maximum capable - 4GB)
* MicroSD/MicroSDHC/Transflash support (maximum capable - 8GB)
* Phone memory 40MB
Battery
* BST-38 3.6 V, 930 mA·h, lithium polymer
* Talk time GSM/UMTS: Up to 9 h/3 h 30 min
* Standby time GSM/UMTS: Up to 400 h/350 h
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- Anonymous
- ibf
- 28 Apr 2008
dont buy, price keep on dropping
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- R
- Pxx
- 28 Apr 2008
@Kiran...
ya..this phone got manual equalizer settings option other than preset MegaBass settings!